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Category: employee engagement
Giving Employee Surveys A Radical Re-Think
Excerpt of a CIPD blog by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics on July 28, 2014. Read the full article here. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein Now and again, it’s good to take a step back and view things from a new angle; looking atMore …
The Beauty Of Measures And The Scarcity Of The Right Ones At The Right Time
By Gregor Findlay – Executive and Team Coach at Courageous Development There’s a disconnect at the top levels of organisations between how we measure the soft stuff and how we measure the hard stuff. A gulf that doesn’t need to be there. Especially when technology can quickly span that gap.More …
Corporate Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility, employee engagement, Internal Communications, measuring engagement, Press Releases
Always-On Engagement At JustGiving
“It shows us how someone is experiencing the world around them at that time, on that day” Head of People, Andy Meikle First published – London, UK (PRWEB) May 06, 2014 JustGiving, the world’s leading social giving company, has transformed the way people support causes they care about. Since itsMore …
The Importance of Information
By Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics. It’s said that money is like the oxygen in the lifeblood of an organisation, and with good reason: the supply of money to different parts of the business, via budgets and staff costs, is what keeps everything running, as long as you can bring enough moneyMore …
It’s Only Business, Right?
By Jerry Pett, Thymometrics A commonly accepted attitude to work is that “business is business”. It’s one of those “golden rules” and I for one have lost count of how many times I have heard “it’s only business”, or maybe “don’t take it personally, it’s only business”. Let’s spend aMore …
Revolution In Engagement Surveys
Read Thymometrics‘ article in simply-communicate… “Building a culture of employee engagement isn’t an annual event. So, why should companies get a sense of what is happening inside their organisations only once per year? As the demand for agility and speed of change has been exponentially accelerating, isn’t it perhaps timeMore …
Four Ways Your Employee Survey is Holding Back Internal Communications
Read Hugh Tonks of Thymometrics‘ piece here, published in HRZone on 20th December 2013 which discusses the ways in which your employee survey is holding back internal communications. For information about Thymometrics’ world leading real-time employee engagement surveys, email [email protected], call +1 646 760 9323 (US) or +44 (0) 1223More …
Corporate Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility, employee engagement, measuring engagement, Social Media
Re-Thinking The Employee Engagement Survey In The Modern World
Originally published in IPA on July 8, 2013 Some have predicted that the age of social media will lead to the death of the employee engagement survey. In this article, Hugh Tonks of Thymometrics argues that far from disappearing, new technology will lead to a rebirth of the engagement surveyMore …
Employee RE-Engagement … A Different Kettle Of Fish?
This article was written by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics and originally published in HRZone on May 30, 2013. External and internal barriers to engagement To paraphrase the opening to Tolstoy’s magnificent Anna Karenina, “All engaged employees are alike; each disengaged employee is disengaged in their own way.” To understand this is to recogniseMore …